Oo, interesting idea. It should work just fine, in fact, part of my impetus for creating PET in the first place was "you can't solo stuff like Archipelago... can you?" But I was never perfectly satisfied with the robustness of the emulation; by shifting to trends over time instead of a flatter result it is less direct but more lifelike (I think!).
I wish I could think of more titles along this line, and to be honest I've always been surprised there weren't more. My hope is folks get inspired by this revision ("I hate where she's taken this!" or "I love this new direction!") and make stuff that riffs (or rejects)!